Surveillance
cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your
emails and text messages and monitoring your spending, mandatory health care, sugary
soda bans, anti-bullying laws, zero tolerance policies, political correctness: these
are all outward signs of a government that believes it knows what is best for
you.

This
tyranny disguised as "the better good" explains the recent rash of parents
getting charged with negligence and arrested for leaving their kids alone for
any amount of time, whether at
a park, in
a store, in
a car, or in
their front yard--another sign of what C.S. Lewis referred to as tyranny
exercised by "omnipotent moral busybodies."

For
the so-called "crime" of allowing her 7-year-old son to visit a neighborhood
playground located a half mile from their house, Nicole
Gainey was interrogated, arrested and handcuffed in front of her son, and
transported to the local jail where she was physically searched, fingerprinted,
photographed and held for seven hours and then forced to pay almost $4000 in
bond in order to return to her family. Gainey now faces a third-degree criminal
felony charge that carries with it a fine of up to $5,000 and 5 years in jail.

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's aggressive, pioneering approach to civil liberties has earned him numerous accolades and (more...)